{"id":588,"date":"2010-07-24T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-07-24T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T17:02:19","slug":"us-drones-hit-pakistan-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/24\/588\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;US drones&#8217; hit Pakistan compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"drone\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/drone.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"195\" \/>Suspected US drones have fired missiles into a compound used by anti-government fighters in Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern tribal belt, killing at least 16 people, officials said.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missile strike on Saturday morning occurred in the Angoor Ada area of South Waziristan, official sources told Al Jazeera.<br \/>Agence France-Presse, citing an unnamed Pakistani security official, reported that two US drone aircraft had executed the strike, firing four missiles.<br \/>Intelligence officials in Wana, South Waziristan&#8217;s main town, and Peshawar also confirmed the attack.<br \/>South Waziristan was the scene of a major Pakistani assault last year. It became the focus of the Pakistani military&#8217;s offensive against Taliban sympathisers after earlier assaults in the Swat valley and Buner.<br \/>US drone strikes are unpopular in Pakistan and the government in Islamabad has repeatedly urged Washington to end them.<br \/>Pakistan says the attacks kill civilians, stoking resentment among the local population and thus prove to be counter-productive in the battle against armed groups. The attacks also undermine Pakistani sovereignty, Islamabad says.<br \/>But the US has persisted with the drone attacks, saying they were effective means to deal with Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters operating in Pakistan&#8217;s border areas with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected US drones have fired missiles into a compound used by anti-government fighters in Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern tribal belt, killing at least 16 people, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;US drones&#039; 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